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My Favorite Fritz Lang Films (Revised and Updated)

by John Charet

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1.   M (1931)

2.   Metropolis (1927)

3.   While the City Sleeps (1956)

4.   Fritz Lang’s Indian Epic (1959)

5.   The Big Heat (1953)

6.   The Testament of Dr. Mabuse (1933)

7.   Spies (1928)

8.   Die Nibelungen (1924)

9.   Scarlet Street (1945)

10. The Woman in the Window (1944)

11. Dr. Mabuse the Gambler (1922)

12. The Blue Gardenia (1953)

13. Rancho Notorious (1952)

14. House by the River (1950)

15. The 1,000 Eyes of Dr. Mabuse (1960)

16. Destiny (1921)

17. The Spiders (1919/1920)

18. Harakiri (1919)

19. Liliom (1934)

20. Beyond a Reasonable Doubt (1956) (Not the 2009 version)

21. Woman in the Moon (1929)

22. Secret Beyond the Door (1947)

23. Hangmen Also Die! (1943)

24. Ministry of Fear (1944)

25. You Only Live Once (1937)

26. Man Hunt (1941)

27. Human Desire (1954)

28. Western Union (1941)

29. You and Me (1938)

30. The Return of Frank James (1940)

31. Clash by Night (1952)

32. Fury (1936) (No releation to the 1978 or 2014 films)

* * * 1/2 (Out of * * * *)

1.   Cloak and Dagger (1946)

2.   Moonfleet (1955)

3.   American Guerilla in the Philippines (1950)

My Favorite Akira Kurosawa Films (Revised and Updated)

by John Charet

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1.   Seven Samurai (1954)

2.   Ran (1985)

3.   Madadayo (1993)

4.   Throne of Blood (1957)

5.   Ikiru (1952)

6.   Rashomon (1950)

7.   High and Low (1963)

8.   Kagemusha (1980)

9.   Yojimbo (1961)

10. The Hidden Fortress (1958)

11. Sanjuro (1962)

12. Stray Dog (1949)

13. Red Beard (1965)

14. Dersu Uzala (1975)

15. The Bad Sleep Well (1960)

16. The Idiot (1951)

17. I Live in Fear (1955)

18. Rhapsody in August (1991)

19. Dreams (1990)

20. The Lower Depths (1957)

21. Dodes’ka-den (1970)

22. Scandal (1950)

23. The Quiet Duel (1949)

24. Drunken Angel (1948)

25. No Regrets for Our Youth (1946)

26. One Wonderful Sunday (1947)

27. Sanshiro Sugata Part II (1945)

28. Sanshiro Sugata (1943)

29. The Men Who Tread on the Tiger’s Tail (1945)

30. The Most Beautiful (1944)

My Favorite Stanley Kubrick Films (Revised and Updated)

by John Charet

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1.   Eyes Wide Shut (1999)

2.   The Shining (1980)

3.   Barry Lyndon (1975)

4.   2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)  

5.   The Killing (1956)

6.   Dr. Strangelove (1964)

7.   A Clockwork Orange (1971)

8.   Paths of Glory (1957)

9.   Full Metal Jacket (1987)

10. Lolita (1962)

* * * 1/2 (Out of * * * *)

1.   Spartacus (1960)

2.   Killer’s Kiss (1955)

3.   Fear and Desire (1953)

My Favorite Buster Keaton Films (Revised and Updated)

by John Charet

* * * * (Out of * * * *)

1.   Sherlock Jr. (1924)

2.   The General (1926)
(co-directed with Clyde Bruckman)

3.   Steamboat Bill Jr. (1928)
(co-directed with Charles Reisner)

4.   The Navigator (1924)
(co-directed with Donald Crisp)

5.   Our Hospitality (1923)
(co-directed with John G. Blystone)

6.   Seven Chances (1925)

7.   The Cameraman (1928)
(co-directed with Edward Sedgwick)

8.   Go West (1925)

9.   Three Ages (1923) 
(co-directed with Edward F. Cline)

* * * * (Out of * * * *) (Short Cinema)

1.   Buster Keaton: Short Films Collection – 1920-1923 (2011)

2.   Lost Keaton: Sixteen Comedy Shorts – 1934-1937 (2011)

My Favorite Werner Herzog Films (Revised and Updated)

by John Charet

* * * * (Out of * * * *)

1.   Aguirre, the Wrath of God (1972)

2.   Fitzcarraldo (1982)

3.   Woyzeck (1979)

4.   Nosferatu the Vampyre (1979)

5.   Rescue Dawn (2006)

6.   The Wild Blue Yonder (2005)

7.   The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser (1974)

8.   Stroszek (1977)

9.   Heart of Glass (1976)

10. Even Dwarfs Started Small (1970)

11. Signs of Life (1968)

* * * * (Out of * * * *) (Documentaries)

1.   The White Diamond (2004)

2.   Grizzly Man (2005)

3.   Lessons of Darkness (1992)

4.   Fata Morgana (1972)

5.   Land of Silence and Darkness (1971)

6.   My Best Fiend (1999)

* * * 1/2 (Out of * * * *) (Documentaries)

1.   Lo & Behold, Reveries of the Connected World (2016)

2.   Little Dieter Needs to Fly (1997)

My Favorite Monte Hellman Films (Revised and Updated)

by John Charet

* * * * (Out of * * * *)

1.   Two-Lane Blacktop (1971)

2.   Cockfighter (1974)

3.   The Shooting (1966)

4.   China 9, Liberty 37 (1978)

5.   Ride in the Whirlwind (1965)

6.   Road to Nowhere (2010)

* * * 1/2 (Out of * * * *)

1.   Iguana (1988)

Note: If you want to know how I saw the 102 minute version of China 9. Liberty 37 (1978), the answer is TCM’s showing of it back during September 7th, which aired after midnight. Hopefully, with TCM’s showing of it in that format, a DVD company will release it in that form and not the chopped 78 minute version, which pales in comparison.

My Favorite Robert J. Flaherty Films (New)

by John Charet

* * * * (Out of * * * *)

1.   Louisiana Story (1948)
(Docufiction)

2.   Nanook of the North (1922)
(Documentary)

3.   Man of Aran (1934)
(Docufiction)

4.   Moana (1926)
(Docufiction)
(No relation to the 2016 Disney film)

5.   The Titan: Story of Michelangelo (1950)
(Co-directed with Curt Oertel and Robert Lyford)
(Documentary)

My Favorite Henri-Georges Clouzot Films (New)

by John Charet

* * * * (Out of * * * *)

1.   Quai des Orfevres (1947)

2.   The Wages of Fear (1953)

3.   Les Diaboliques (1955)

4.   Le Corbeau (1943)

5.   The Mystery of Picasso (1956)
(Documentary)